Sanders calls for conditioning US aid to Israel - eviltoast
  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    “While Israel has the right to go after Hamas, Netanyahu’s right-wing extremist government does not have the right to wage almost total warfare against the Palestinian people,” the Vermont senator said in a statement.

    Seems like his views on this are pretty much aligned with that of typical israelis.

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      1 year ago

      And yet that’s the same view that has had people screaming about anti-semitism for the past month.

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        1 year ago

        idk about a majority…There was a massive protest outside Netanyahu’s house.

        Israeli’s are bombing their own civilians that are being held hostage right now. They are killing their own as if they are disposable.

        • VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social
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          Well I’m sure the families of the hostages aren’t super happy about the way the war is being waged, but I wonder about the others. He did get voted in, and a lot more legitimately than Hamas in Gaza which was years before half their population was old enough to vote.

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            Well Trump, Putin and Hitler also were voted in.

            But I doubt the majority would vote for them again given the chance.

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        I have to admit that I do not know. Probably not? How they think about it currently might be a bit different from how they thought about it 2 months ago.

        My understanding is that they’re pretty displeased with both Hamas and Netanjahu’s government and are mostly blaming both for the current catastrophe.